Saturday, October 03, 2009

Another Bricks in The Wall

Wadda...*** Nope! It's obviously not Pink Floyd section. It's just a little trick to blend your font into an object. Lets jump right in and open your bricks stone, wall, metal, or any background image you like. Today we're gonna reveal one of the most effective way to blend some text or even something/image into textured surfaces. What a day!!!

Starting with this textured image...

Go a head duplicate the original texture and turn its Blending Modedown to Color Burn and reduce its Opacity to 68%.

While we’re at it, lets go ahead and add a new Layer, we're gonna type something here.. above the textured layers as I have captured below. I used Arial Black, color white, it's your choice guys to pick any font you like.. lmao.

Next, Right Click the Type Layer and choose Blending Options by Right + Clicking it... Within the Layer Styles main panel, go to the lower left to the Blend If section. Do this separation thing I've done...

We're gonna add a lil' dimension to the font we've created. For the moment, again do that separation just like the previous step, as captured below.

If you go it right, your bricks should now look like mine.. but if not, do not pass go, do not collect $7000, just get yourself back to Step 4 and figure out where you went wrong! Let me tell you something, that tricky part depends on your image size. Explore your own then!

Another Bricks in The Wall

If you followed the directions carefully your image should now resemble the one you see in final blend. If not.. au revoir!